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Secrecy Won't Help : : ORE light is needed on the meetings of the Big Three : foreign ministers opening today in New York and the Atlantic Pact representatives. later in the week. Momentous decisions are going to be made at these meetings. Indications are that the emphasis will be on Europe, and in particular on the question of rearming Germany—a touchy and delicate subject. But that is largely hearsay. No agenda has been given out for either conference. Not only will they be closed to the press, but it is said the foreign ministers/will be most guarded in announcing details of their talks after they've Bnished.

» -. | ~ . » SECRETARY’ of State Acheson has said that the range of problems to be taken up will be “very great.” He added that in these meetings and during the next few weeks the State Department would be working on more problems than in any 50 years of previous peacetime history. He could be more explicit. Supposedly the reason for the extreme caution and ‘hush-hush is military secrecy—a desire to keep Russia - | from knowing what the Western Allies intend to do to _ block her aggression in Europe or elsewhere.

» » » y - ” BUT it's hardly likely that any tactical moves are “to be planned by these foreign ministers, nor even military strategy. And if it's policy they're laying down, the people ‘who will be called upon to support these policies cannot be long kept in the dark. Any such major decisions are likely to become apparent anyway, as soon as next week, in the deliberations of the United Nations General Assembly. No apparent good purpose would be served by shrouding these talks in mystery and attempting to withhold

hy the people details of the burdens they ultimately

Eisler’ Hot Seat

THE pure secret dread of all Communists, seems to be moving in the direction of Gerhard Eisler, who formerly represented the Cominform in the United States. es Some months ago, Eisler was dropped from member- - ship on the central committee of the Communist Party in East Germany, though he retained his position as propaganda chief for the puppet government. Now Bruno Goldhammer, his deputy inthe propaganda office, has been “ousted from the party on charges of espionage. © Goldhammer and nine other Communist leaders on the Jatest purge list are accused of spying for the United * | Eisler, convicted of passport fraud in this country, was out on bail when he escaped on a Polish ship to his native Germany. Witnesses before Congressional committees had ‘identified him as the Cominform’s s spokesman while he was in the United States. * = x & = IT WAS Eisler, in his capacity as propaganda chief, who announced the abortive plan to “invade” Western Berlin during the Communist Youth demonstration last May. When the invasion failed to come off, it was a matter of

speculation whether he had tipped, off plans which had to ‘abandoned on that account, or merely had been popping

off. In either event, he lost his position on the party's central committee soon after the mild youth demonstration. Since the latest purge is just getting under way, and reaching into the highest places in the party, Eisler seems . to be sitting on a very hot'seat. The apparent ease with which he escaped from this country make him suspect— for a judicial system which lets a man go“free on bond pending an appeal must be baffling to the Communist mind.

“Think You're Important? SOMEBODY said the other day that even if we get going on construction of A-bomb shelters, we may not be able to erect enough to take care of everybody. In that case, this gentleman suggested, we would have to classify people according to their importance to the nation. The idea opens up some interesting vistas. Who's more important to the war effort, Betty Grable or a federal . judge? You won't find any judges’ pictures among the morale-builders pinned up on a GI barracks wall. p Down at the low ‘end of the scale, we might find some types having to struggle to get on any list at all. For instance, who's going to lobby for a seat in a shelter for a writer of singing commercials? Can you imagine the popularity of the classification pomimittee? . “There go the executioners’ is. what you'd 2 daily from the shelter rejects. Tough assignment.

Too Alert, No Doubt

7 Jp Congressman J. Parnell Thomas, released from federal prison, says e “paid a high price for vigilance.” ' Which seems to be a rather self-conscious and excessively

candid way of putting the crime for which he was con-

: wicted—padding, his official payroll and accepting salary : Mickbacks from his congressional employees.

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Prevention Ounce

- Federal Government, under the enlarged social security program, will spend more motiey to take care the crippled. Now let the states and gities spend more and take away the licenses of the speeders who are daily increasing the.number of: be even better. :

+ foresaw UMT passage after the election.

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MILITARY CONTROL . . .

By James Daniel

Educators Plan for Emergency

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12—The most representative assembly of professional educators since the schoolmen ganged up to kill universal military training in 1946 and 1947 has just concluded here. > The meeting was called by the National Education Association (NEA), which spearheaded the anti-UMT fight. Present were representatives of more than 80 educational organizations. They met to set up a national conference on mobilization of education. Now established with NEA officials in the key positions of executive secretary and associate secretary, the conference will function during the war period like a trade association.

Among its ‘purposes will be to see that draft

. deferment policies satisfactory to the schools

are set, to assure tires for school busses and to obtain government research and training contracts to carry the colleges and universities through the emergency.

Idea Challenged

PRINCIPAL contact for the conference will

be the U, 8, Office of Education, a branch of °

the Federal Security Administration.

Underlying the meeting was the fear by some educators that mobilization means mili-

-‘ tary control of their institutions, although this

idea was challenged once on the floor. T. B. Pullen Jr.,-Maryland state school superintendent, had pointed out the practical danger that the government, paying the fiddler, would call the tune. He cited the naval ROTC program as a “bad example” 3 But Robert I. Stearns, president of the University of Colorado. challenged him with a strong support of the Navy program. Dr, Stearns often has advised the military on training programs. Mr. Pullen then explained he was merely stating-a general principle. It" was apparent that the schoolmen still distrust UMT, but that a growing minority, at least, now believes it’s inevitable.

An observer for the U. 8. Office of Education-

said he had noted less opposition among school men. He said he thought UMT would pass, along witha program of federal scholarships. A conference delegate agreed. He said he Now working with a committee dealing with the rela-

- tion of the schools to. military training, he said

he still had misgivingé but saw UMT as likely.

Cooking is quite intrfcare. There's always something new To tempt the hand of cook; And try her patience too.

Poor Grandma always trifled With a pinch or dash she chose; And made her dainty dishes "To please both taste and nose,

Our modern ‘brides are lucky With mixes, cans, and such; . . And recipes all planned out That have a certain touch.

The problem quite explainable Is what and how to cook To balance budget, please your man; And give that newest look. —Josephine Buck, Westfield,

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By Galbraith

Taking note of the revived interest in UMT, the higher education department of the NEA recently drafted a policy statement.

Three Points ITS three main points are: A bid for government research .and training contracts; a proposal for federal scholarships to the most promising students, with the appropriate draft status for those in key subjects; a yes-and-no position on UMT. The UMT clause says: “ “In the event that the national security should require a system of military training for youth, (we) believe that a program should be developed which would provide a broader basis

of -training -than -the exclusively military pro-

gram contemplated Congress.” Dr. Ralph McDonald, executive secretary for the college and university phase of NEA's work, who was NEA's chief congressional witnéss against UMT, called the statement “not flatfooted opposition but definitely not ‘acceptance of present UMT proposals.” He said the nation should rely first on the draft, with military training given a “place somewhere” in a broad training program. Spehe suggested possible extension of ROTC to aif colleges and high schools.

Defenses Neglected

ONE delegated expressed the opinion, not for quotation, that the military deliberately neglected our defenses to create a situation where UMT could be shoved through. E. B. Norton, president of Alabama State Teachers College, representing the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, which in 1946 said UMT would produce jat best an unmobilized mass of half-trained’ boys,” said he personally was still against UMT. He said an alternative would be greater physical education in schools, Including camping trips.

What Others Say—

THE French male has never wholeheartedly accepted woman's progress. With the new French clothes creations he is giving women a shove over a sociological cliff, impairing their entire thinking processes.—Raymond Marinelli, dress designer.

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WHERE a Communist Party is in power it

cannot accept dictation from abroad in the form. .. ““contracts with labor unions, volintarily granted.

of crude economic exploitation without undermining national independence. —-Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia. . oe WE face across the world an unfriendly power with far greater military strength than was possessed by either Hitler or the Kaiser. — of Pennsylvania. «oS DE-CONTROL has worked out very well up to now . . . but now that we have this war situation, de-control is not a good thing.— -Tighe Woods, federal housing expediter. Ce a WE should make it leas that the choice. of widening the Korean conflict 1s in their (Russia’s) hands and not in ours. We want no war out we will not shirk from accepting it if that

.be their choice.—William F. Knowland (R. Cal.),

US. Senator.

BIG DECISIONS .

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Men Behind the Scenes’ By C. D. C., Terre Haute Tom Dewey recently announced that he was going to retire from politics and I assume there were quite a number of Americans like myself who made no protest whatever, Neither would a similar announcement by. his foreign affairs expert, . John Foster Dulles, who is Sow of y

say, but | to say it."

It seems, Ey that ; as far as y New oii State is concerned that Tom Dewey is an in-

dispensible man and he has been drafted again

to run for governor, ‘The excuse given is that a man of his ability is needed on account of the tense foreign situation. However, the men who have done the drafting seem to be men who work behind the scenes and make Presidents,

> b @ IN CASE Dewey is still alive and healthy, we can, of course, expect the next Republican candidate for President to be named by men in a smoke-filled hotel room after quite a lot of jockeying and horse trading and with quite a block of votes coming out of New York state for Tom Dewey. If this should be the case and Harry Truman Is the Democrat candidate, I imagine there will again be thousands of Independent voters who “will not -take the trouble -to-vote at all. For, after all, who can be blamed for not voting when the candidates are Siamese twins and the only difference would be a thirdterm President and the other a third-term candidate for President. Se > % OF LATE, of course, Mr. Truman, as usual, has made some pretty bad blunders. His unjustifiable attack on the American Marines will no doubt cause him to lose the House and prob-

EUROPEAN DEFENSE . . . U.S. Aid Hing «J. Al Inges WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 — President Truman's pledge to send ‘‘substantiat reinforcements of United States troops.to Western Europe will not materialize unless our Allies there raise much larger armies than now planned. Neither the President, the Secretaries of State and Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, nor Congress is in favor of the United States furnishing the bulk of Allied ground forces there. Though the President in his statement tried to make clear that the size and timing of American reinforcements for Europe depend on “the degree to which our friends match our actions in this regard,” the Allied governments and

press tend to overlook the strict reciprocal terms of the offer.

Congress Firm THE immediate congressional response. to the Truman offer indicates that the legislative body, which must authorize the larger army for Europe and finance it, will be firm in insisting that these conditions be met. Members of the Senate and House “Foreign Committees will seek assurances from Secretary of State Acheson that these conditions will not be modified by the administration. He is expected not only to express sympathy with their concern but to explain that the main purpose of the Truman statement is to give him bargaining power at the Allled Big Three meeting in New York this week. He will try to get Britain and France, and then the other Atlantic Pact governments, to move faster.

GOLD MINE .

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ably the Senate in the fall election. OE owerery Mr. Truman always seems to have a way of coming back and climbing to the top again, so I think we can safely assume that Harry and Tom are going to run against each other again in 1952. This is all based on the assumption, of course, that we will be able to defend our« selves from Joe Stalin. : :

‘The People Must Speak’ By G. W. Sharkey, 854 Eugene St. The griidie in this month's Readers Digest

: : = ORE = Key to a is the most logical and timely message of our time, This should bs printed in large type in every newspaper in the nation. It should be read on the floor of both houses of Congress. It should be required reads ing in high schools and colleges. It is the only clear cut presentation of our position in the world of military might. Every reader of this paper should write to the Congressman from this district and let them know the folly of the present strategy of builde ing a huge Army or even a large Navy, when they, especially the Army could never hope to defeat the armies of Russia, and all the smaller countries under her control. This is not a lack of faith in our Army, but -a statement of fact. The only branch of the military in which we can expect to be superior is in the striking Air Force. We are wasting money, men and most of all precious time by thinking in terms of the last war, and: building up ground forces which can never defeat the Russian ground forces. Anyone doubting this please read the abova mentioned article carefully. Then let your voice be heard to save this country from disaster. The generals and admirals are too blind ta their country’s danger because of a selfish pride in their particular branch of the service. The people had better speak and quickly, if we are to remain a free country.

By Ludwell Denny ) | on Allies’ Power

So the Truman move is the opposite of an effort to take on American shoulders the pri« mary responsibility for West European pres paredness.

Good Faith

IT 1S a sharp reminder to our Allies that they must undertake their own neglected defense. And, as evidence of America’s good faith in insisting that they get going, the United States is offering its fair share of the joint ground forces as quickly as possible, The power of this American example is very much needed. That has been shown by the failure of the Atlantic Pact Council of Deputies to get the required commitments from the Allied governments regarding adequate armies. Congress is very sensitive to this lag in Allied performance. The feeling is general that far too much time has been lost since the Atlantic Pact was signed, and that even the Korean- crisis has not speeded the European preparedness tempo enough.

— After Korea CHAIRMAN Tom Connally of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said we should not send more troops to Europe until the Korean War is won. This is an extreme view, which underrates the primary Importance of Western Europe in global defense. But it-is a growing attitude. It can be balanced only by strong proof from our European Allies that they are doing every< thing possible for their own defense,

. By Earl Richert

Earnings of Auto Makers Soar

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12—The “Comstock lode of 1950” appears to be the big automobile companies. Those millions of new automobiles coming off the assembly lines have been producing a literal gold mine of corporate earnings—to the great benefit of both employees and stockholders. General Motors “inthe first—sixmonths-of this year earned net profits (after taxes) of $485 million, the highest for a single company in. American corporate history. That $485 million—in six months for General Motors—is more than all the gold and silver taken from the fabulous Comstock lode at Virginia City, Nev, in the more than 30 years of mining the remarkable ore vein last century.

Large Dividends

IT IS the automobile earnings which made

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possible the recent rash of record-breaking

The big companies were able to grant them,

and the smaller companies were forced to

follow suit. And it is these earnings “which are re‘sponsible for large: dividends being paid this month to stockholders by General Motors and Chrysler. : Chrysler, which only last through a bitter 100-day strike that put it in the red for the first quarter of the year, is this month paying a dividend of $4.75 a share on its 8,702,000 shares of common stock. This brings dividends paid by Chrysler so far this year to $7.75 a share—$2.50 a share more. than, total payments made in all of 1949. “General Motors this month also is paying a $4 per share dividend on its 43.9 million shares

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of comman stock—a total payment of $176,417,-

360. This dividend brings total payments so far this year to $7 per share—just $1 per

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share less than General Motors paid in all of 1949: The Chrysler $4.75 dividend includes an extra dividend of $3 per share which the. core poration’s directors voted after it gave a $25 million cost of living wage rise to its employees,

Cost of Living Index THE $4 -per..share. September. GM. dividend includes an extra of $2.50 per share which General Motors officers said was voted to keep ‘dividend returns to stockholders more in line with the increased cost of living. The GM ‘contract with the automobile union is based on the Bureau of Labor statistics’ cost-of-living index. During the first six months of this year, net GM profits equaled $10.91 a share. Chrysler's earnings, because of the strike, were only $4.54. Ford's earnings are unknown because the company’s stock is privately ‘held. ° Some smaller automobile companies have ~done.-well 100. Studebaker's net profits for. the first six months of the vear amounted to $6.12 a share, as against $4.98 in the same period: last year. |[ Nash” Kelvinator earnings in the nine months ending June 30 were $4.95 a. ‘share as against $4.66 a year ago. Some others didn't do so well.

High Point Passed THE high point in automobile profits is bee lieved to havé been passed, especially if auto makers do not raise car prices. The higher union wages and other benefits will eat into profits, And the excess profits tax, which Congress. is . expected to vote next year, will trim profits during the last part of 1950. . A" cut ‘in automobile production likely to result from the war effort also will decrease . earnings. Even though the auto companies get many government orders they will not make the profits they do on civilian goods.

Symington ‘Seen Key Man in U.S. Defense

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 — W. Stuart Symington’'s close friends have always been appalled at the way people Bo around _— saying he could sell iceboxes to-eskimos. “Whaddaya think Stu is—old-fashioned?” they ask.

of Assistant Secretary of War to for Air. Mr. Symington's ene thusiasm for the flying ma-

chine practically engulfed the

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deep freezes he'd sell 'em.”

Anyway, the point is clear.

agreeing that Willlam Stuart Symington III is one of the most persuasive men ever io descend on this community. As a result nobody is’ worrying too much about his ability to handle the job President Truman has just given him-—a job which, in effect, makes him boss of the, nation’s new defense program.

- - ” STU SYMINGTON will stay as chairman of the National Security Resources Board. But from that post he will make

all the final ‘decisions affecting - defense production

controls, expansion and economic mobilization as the country girds to fight the Communist threat. To start with, Stu Symington has obvious assets. He's a ‘big, rangy man of 49 with hair

A society editor once described

“taffy colored,” His jaw is

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a nice oh raise before wage. controls ® manpower shortage: develops!”

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about him-—even -in the rare - repose-—is. his energy. Jt seema:

pany of his own, oy returned a ‘and his smile is broad. ‘Rut the: thing ydu, notice most + of his family’s Somnus,

_ mon@nts when the man is fn

STU SYMINGTON went on to an assortment of successes, however, and. in 1938 became "president of the Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co. in St. Louis. There he shocked the more conservative industrialists by co-operating with

Washington is unanimous" in

‘constantly to be boiling out of him. When he walks, it is not so much a walk as it is a kind of canter, . ~ » ” MR. SYMINGTON has been a success so long it seems incredible that he should ever have stumbled, but he has—and in a way that warms the cockles of the average man's heart. For the discomfiture of the stuffier-shirted element in the business world, it is a de- . light to report that Stuart Symington was fired from both his first and his ‘third jobs. A rich man's son who was born in "Amherst, Mass., ana brought up in Baltimore, Mr. Symington joined one of his father's com after leaving Yale. He was fired because he. didn't like the company's product and said so. He then . developed a clay products com-

profit-sharing plan. “If I'm going to have a union, I'm going to have a good union,” he said. He came to Washington's attention during the war when he worked as an observer in England for the Office of Production. Management, Mean-

pressed ) ton’s ability during an investigation of a war contract at Emerson. 'So on June 7, 1945, Stu Symington - was named chairman of the Surplus Board and given the

worth of War merchandise, FROM the Surplus. Pifferty

as vice it of anather

plucked Stu - against ‘the

-_the union and establishing a

- Property : job of selling off $90 billion

Board, President Truman.

capital—he was one of the most vigorous fighters for unification, which won, and for a T70:-group air force, which lost—our program calls for only 69. J : Naturally, then, Stu Syme ington had to he the first Secretary of Air, a job he kept until his appointment to head the Security Resources Board last April, ® 5-88

) MR. SYMINGTON generally

‘is regarded as a presidential

“pet.” He's had only one close call in maintaining this -posie

‘tion. Just after the 1948 elece

tion, word got around that the Secretdry of Air had had a sumptuous new plane prepared for Gov. Thomas E. Dewey on the assumption that Gov, Dewey was a shoo-in for the

_ presidency. Newspapers even